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Vaporous vs Vapory - What's the difference?

vaporous | vapory |

As adjectives the difference between vaporous and vapory

is that vaporous is relating to vapour; misty, foggy, obscure, insubstantial while vapory is resembling vapor; vaporous.

vaporous

English

Alternative forms

* vapourous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to vapour; misty, foggy, obscure, insubstantial.
  • * 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
    • O hateful, vaporous , and foggy night!
  • * 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
    • So whosoever shall entertain high and vaporous imaginations, instead of a laborious and sober inquiry of truth, shall beget hopes and beliefs of strange and impossible shapes.

    vapory

    English

    Alternative forms

    * vapoury

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling vapor; vaporous.
  • Characterized by the presence of vapor; full of, or obscured by, vapor.
  • * 1835 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘King Pest’:
    • The most fetid and poisonous smells everywhere prevailed; and by the aid of that ghastly light which, even at midnight, never fails to emanate from a vapory and pestilential atmosphere, might be discerned lying in the by-paths and alleys, or rotting in the windowless habitations, the carcass of many a nocturnal plunderer arrested by the hand of the plague in the very perpetration of his robbery.